Suggester to be acted upon by Democratic committee in Chicago visit
Lincoln Neb Aug 17 A suggested novel in its character designed to bolster the Democratic party will be acted on by the Democratic national committee during W J Bryan's Chicago visit next week The plan centers on the Denver platform bank deposit guarantees and Bryan will discuss it at Topeka Aug 27 The proposal aims to aid voters in communities hit by bank failures with arguments in favor of the guarantee Bryan visited Fairview Methodist church and hosted Lincoln automobilists including Mayor Frank W W Brown They noted his land would make a good golf course but Bryan preferred baseball calling it a cooperative national pastime
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Lincoln
Neb
Democratic National Committee
W. J. Bryan
Chicago
Denver
Topeka
Hiterary Bureau
Bryan
Little Methodist Church
Fairview
Democrats Plan Vigorous Western Campaign to Swing States
Chicago August 17 Democratic national committee leaders map a push to win Montana and other mountain states. John Atwood says top speakers will tour the West in debatable districts, with Mack planning a late September Western trip. Martin Wade leaves for Buffalo to launch the national campaign in New York state.
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Chicago
Democratic
Mack
Pacific
Montana
John A. Atwood
Martin J. Wade
Iowa
Buffalo
New York State
National Committee
Fire destroys Minnedosa CPR engine house and four locomotives
Winnipeg August 17 The Canadian Pacific railway engine house at Minnedosa Man along with four locomotives was razed by fire. The blaze started from an engine under repair and also damaged the freight office rolling stock and elevators. Minnedosa a divisional point, the loss will seriously affect Yorkton branch traffic during this season.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Railway
Minnedosa
Here
Yorkton
State and Unprofitable
A lone football player visits the classroom during season and shocks students who try to show respect. Once it becomes clear he attended the class, peers mutter that he has “gone stale,” spreading a sneering whisper through the room.
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Sesson
Puck
Dangers of Melancholy and Will Power in Treatment
The passage warns that melancholia weakens the mind as brain degeneration follows mental heaviness. It argues the cure lies mainly in will power and advises changing occupation scenery and associations to escape introspection. If the will is strengthened the mind can recover with sustained effort.
How Can You Play Decent Golf on These Cursed Unks
An irascible old colonel who golfed at Sandwich on the Stour blamed others for his bad strokes. After a violent bunker incident he lashed out at ships passing in the channel, exclaiming about the cursed Unks in public.
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Sandwich
Stour
London Mail
Gay fashions through the centuries reveal extravagant dress
A New York Herald piece traces dandies from the fourteenth century bishop's gold suits to Mary era robes and Chaucer era color clashes. It notes eighteenth century folly with green coats and elaborate grooming by valets, detailing starching beards, perfuming garments, and pomatums.
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Solomon
Ely
Earl of Northumberland
Chaucer
Joseph
Manchester
New York Herald
The Flageolet and Apache Courtship Flute History
The piece explains the flageolet as the Apache love flute used for distant courting. It describes construction from cedar, two side holes, air channel, wooden cap, lead lip, and six finger holes. It notes white contact influence and historic double or triple flageolets with a Bainbridge patent.
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Bainbridge
Dumbleby's
The Name of Higwinea Surname Origins Debate
The piece surveys theories on Higgins surname origins. It contrasts St Hygginus lineage via St Yeyn with the Ike or Wikke forms linked to Isaac. It notes Isaacson Hicks Higgs Hickson Higson as related variants and suggests Wiggins via Anglo Norman diminutive. A second view traces Higgins to Hugoins from Hugo.
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Higgins
St. Hygginus
St. Yeyn
Ike
Isaac
Langlind
Isaacs
Isaacson
Hicks
Higgs
Hickson
Higson
Wiggins
Huggins
Hutchinson
Hugh
Hugoins
Tuo
The Call of the Wild and Bird Calls of Alarm
Excerpt notes how song birds use three notes to express love, alarm, and fellowship, with a piercing scream of distress when threatened by a cat or hawk. Burroughs observes this scream as a universal, simple expression of terror across species.
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John Burroughs
Country Life
America
Matrimonial Trends Push Age Gaps in Marriage
London World notes a rising trend of society women marrying men much younger than themselves. The paper suggests there may be social anxiety and even the possibility of an age limit being considered in the future.
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London
Not Square Earth Taught at School, Then Realized
A boy taught at school that the earth is not square discovers for himself that many people share the same understanding. The remark follows a simple lesson about common beliefs and how verification shapes certainty.
Lincoln Centennial Plans for Springfield Celebration
Preparations underway for a national Lincoln centennial in Springfield Illinois on February 12 1909 under the Lincoln Centennial association led by Melville Fuller and other prominent Illinois figures. The program includes tomb ceremonies a public meeting and a banquet for 1000 with invitations to Roosevelt cabinet members and foreign diplomats. Schools nationwide will observe the same program and every child will recite Lincoln's farewell speech facing Springfield at a designated hour.
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Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Centennial Association
Melville W. Fuller
United States
Cullom and Hopkins
Cannon
Adkul E. Stevenson
Deneen
Richard Yates
Illinois
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Washington
Flashlight signal aids night steamboat whistles
Captain Jen Dockerty of the Patchogue tugs reports a new flashlight signal system on the Long Island Railroad fleet. Nine electric lamps flash in synchrony with the whistle to warn in fog or cold, allowing pilothouse windows to stay closed and ensuring accurate signaling when the whistle fails.
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Jen Dockerty
Patchogue
Longs Island Railroad Company
New York Herald
Docherty
Dockerty
Rebuke or Encouragement in a Forehead Kiss
A Louisville Con. Aer Journal fragment features a scene where a man kisses a woman on the forehead and she asserts her height then comments on reaching higher than her lips. The dialogue contrasts pride and restraint in a moment of intimate tension.
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Louisville
Aer Journal
The Poor Bard in a Bare Attic Scene
A narrator notes a poet's bare attic and the woman comments it is nice enough yet asks how he hears it. He replies he lights a match when it gets cold, illustrating a small, intimate moment in a New Orleans Times Democrat snippet.
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New Orleans Times Democrat
Lancashire Farmer Sparks Oat Evolution Breakthrough
A Lancashire farmer near Warrington claims the oat plant grown via succelerated evolution exceeds world records by yielding 160 bushels per acre. The method crosses highly developed oats with wild varieties to boost seed output, with double yields seen in some crops within decades. A New York State report notes a rare pheasant sighting near Manchester, described as a Japanese pheasant with steel blue head and neck, orange red wings, and a long tail, usually solitary and unlike Mongolian species.
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Luther Burbank
California
England
Garton
Warrington
Lancashire
New York State
Manchester
N.Y
Desirable Summer Tree Quote by John Wendrick Langs
In Harper's Weekly an ode extols a perpetual educated tree to accompany us in town. It imagines shade on hot days and lemonade from a lemon tree, praising comfort and whimsy in public life.
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John Wendrick Langs
Harper’s Weekly
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